Anthony Cumia, one half of the Opie & Anthony duo that was fired a year-and-a-half ago by Infinity Broadcasting for an on-air sex contest that led into St. Patrick's Cathedral, is writing on his web site about the current brou-ha-ha.

He notes the firing of Bubba the Love Sponge, the suspension by Clear Channel of Howard Stern, and the current breast-beating by the FCC and Congress:

While at the last hearing Mel (Karmazin) could only offer up our stinking year and a half old corpses (Clear Channel's) John Hogan had fresh kills. Howard Stern being one of them.

I don’t know anything about Bubba but I think we can all say we know who Howard Stern is and we know what his show is all about. I would imagine if you were the president of the largest radio broadcasting company in the country you would know who Howard Stern is and what his show is like. I may be going out on a limb here but I would even hazard to guess you might have caught some of his show during the quarter century or so that he’s been on the air. Anyone see where I’m going with this yet?

Mr. Hogan chose to take Howard off of his stations THE DAY BEFORE he was to testify before the indecency committee. Why? Mr. Hogan decided that Howard Stern was indecent. Was Howard indecent the day before yesterday? Or last week or last year?

With all the controversy, and attacks against broadcast indecency, he says, "I think I can speak for Opie when I say, welcome to our nightmare!"